Improvement in pump-buckets



W. BEAUCHAMP.

PUMP BUCKET.

BTO-179,838. Patented Ju1y18, 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QEETCE.

WILLIAM BEAUGHAMP, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PUMP-BUCKTS."

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 79,838, dated July 18, 1876; application tiled v May 3, 1876.

.To all whomli't may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP,

of Evansville, Vanderberg county, State ot Indiana, have invented an Improved Elastic Bucket for Pumps; and I do hereby declare the following to be an exact description thereot', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, makinga part of this specification, in Which-'` Figure l represents a side view of the elas- Lic bucket as connected to a link-chain. Fie.

2 represents a side view of the flanges, head-- bolt, screw, and nut, and eyes at each end. Fig..3 is a perspective view of the beveleded ged rubber bucket. l

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and combination of the eyes B B,

tlange-headed bolt D, anged nut G, andprojecting ring A on the face ot' nut G, screwscrew-threads ot' the nut G, the rubber bucket F being placed between the anged head of the bolt l) and the flanged nut G, by opening the slit K ot' the'rubber bucket F.

Thetlanged nut G is made with a project-v ing ring, A,on the face, to correspond with the groove H in the rubber bucket F,-for the purpose of holdingI the bucket from being drawn from its proper place when the chain is in operation, the rubber bucket F havinga beveled edge, and made with aslit, K, through one Side ot it, for the purpose of fitting it between the llanged bolt D and llange-nut G Without unlinking` or taking` apart the chain.

W hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination of the Hnge-headedy bolt D, eyes B B, screw-threads E E, correspondingl nut G, and projecting ring A on nut G, when constructed and combined as herein described and set forth.

2. The rubber bucket F, having the slit K tted between the flange-head ot' bolt D and llanged nut G by means ofthe projecting ring A in the face of nut G, and the corresponding ring H in the bucket, as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM BEAUOHAMP.

Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN REIGART, E. C. MooRE. 

